Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Birnbaum's doorbell rang early one morning and an excited man broke the news. Alfred and Edna Birnbaum, lucky people, had won a $15,000 prefab house raffle ticket. But, they soon found, it takes a heap of money to make a free house a home...
Last Laugh. In Philadelphia, while giving Constable William L. Bailey a ticket for illegal parking, Patrolman James J. Gallo dropped a piece of paper on the ground, later received a ticket from Bailey for littering the streets...
Said one listener: "I bought a straight pari-mutuel ticket: Heifetz to win, Piatigorsky to place and Rubinstein to show. I damn well lost. In music like this there could not be a winner or a loser." Said another: "You didn't know whether to shout or bow your head...
When the current nine-week season opened in July (with Mildred Natwick, John Emery and Tamara Geva in Blithe Spirit), the Playhouse still owed $9,500 on the Selznick loan, but had rolled up an advance ticket sale...
Jackpot. In Melbourne, Australia, Maurice Crowe disclosed that his wife's will had left him a lottery ticket a month for life on condition that any winnings be used to pay her real-estate debts...